All fessed up with the iPhone Confession app? Good. Now you can pray with your talking rosary.

The so-called Freedom Rosary, developed by a Vero Beach couple, talks a devotee through the prayers with a tiny speaker in its cross. Like the Confession app, the device is meant to aid Catholic tradition rather than replace it.

"People are confused about how to say [the rosary]. They haven't been taught," says Rae DelVecchio, who developed the device along with husband Gary Graham. "We hope this will bring them closer to Christ."

The device has the five "decades," or sets of 10 beads, familiar to Catholics who pray the rosary. Press the larger beads between the decades, and the cross recites a "mystery," or incident from the life of Mary or Jesus, such as his baptism. You can pick either a male or female voice.

Between each electronic beads, you can go through the usual 10 "Hail Mary" prayers, touching each bead as you go. After the final mystery, press the final bead to hear the "Hail Holy Queen" prayer.

Once the rosary's calendar is set, the clever circuitry keeps track of which of the four "mysteries" to pray on any given day. That eliminates confusion about timing, which DelVecchio believes is a major reason more Catholics don't pray the rosary.

The couple has patented the design, saying that no one else has created an electronic string of prayer beads. They've also trademarked the names "Freedom Rosary" and "Our Lady's Freedom Rosary."

"There's nothing original, technologically," Graham says. "What's different is putting them in a rosary."

He and Rae produced the rosary with little computer knowledge of their own, by working with a software designer and a hardware designer – who happened to be Muslim and Buddhist. They also asked advice from 10 members of their parish.

The device is $60 for the traditional style, $55 for a smaller "military" version that fits like a bracelet. The price includes a "Quick-Start" guide and a longer manual, plus earplug and battery recharger. Since they began producing the rosary in May 2010, they say they've sold about 500.

Their company, R&G LLC, has become a consuming project. DelVecchio, a former chief operations officer for a clinical research corporation, has been working fulltime on the rosary project for about three months. Graham, a retail pharmacist, supplements their income by working per diem in Vero Beach and Fort Pierce.

The developers say they draw no income from the project: Proceeds go to charities that fight slavery and human trafficking -- hence the name Freedom Rosary. Although they haven't broken even yet, they have donated $500-$600 thus far – some from their own money, some given by customers.

"Some people give over and above the price of the rosary," DelVecchio explains. "We give that to the charities."

They are also marketing it themselves, going to Catholic schools, stores and conferences, and have a website (FreedomRosary.com).

To their surprise, they found that Catholics in their 30s and 40s were among the first to take an interest in the rosary. "They don't know or forgot about it, but they'd like to say it," DelVecchio says.

The rosary doesn't do it all for you; it presumes you know the Hail Marys and the "Our Father" prayer, although it does say the Apostles' Creed. But a future version will do that, too. Spanish and Italian versions are also being planned.